Implements for cleaning floors, carpets, furniture, walls, or wall coverings (brushes, their handles or fastenings A46B, B25G; scrapers for finishing work on buildings E04F21/00)

Filing statistics

CPC A47L 13/00 belongs to the parent subclass A47L, which recorded 108,106 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 5,677 in 2013 to 9,353 in 2023 (+65%), peaking at 13,568 applications in 2018. The most active applicants in class A47 are LG ELECTRONICS (8,633 applications), BSH (BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERAETE) (4,258 applications) and SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY (3,477 applications).

Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings